“Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”
You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? The catalogue of hypocrisy continues: the prohibiter of adultery (moicheuō) may be an adulterer; the abhorrer of idols (bdelusso eidōlon) may rob temples (hierosyleō). Temple robbery—desecrating sacred spaces—represents the height of sacrilege. These specific examples may reference actual Jewish hypocrisy or function typologically to illustrate the universal gap between profession and practice.
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